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Hello darkness, my old friend,

Am
I've come to talk with you again,

F C
Because a vision softly creeping,

F C
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,

F C
And the vision that was planted in my brain

C/B Am
Still remains

C G Am
Within the sound of silence.

G
In restless dreams I walked alone

Am
Narrow streets of cobblestone,

F C
'neath the halo of a street lamp,

F C
I turned my collar to the cold and damp

F C
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

C/B Am
That split the night

C G Am
And touched the sound of silence.

G
And in the naked light I saw

Am
Ten thousand people, maybe more.

F C
People talking without speaking,

F C
People hearing without listening,
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People writing songs that voices never share

C/B Am
And no one dare

C G Am
Disturb the sound of silence.

G
Fools said I, you do not know

Am
Silence like a cancer grows.

F C
Hear my words that I might teach you,

F C
Take my arms that I might reach you.

F C C/B Am
But my words like silent raindrops fell,

C
And echoed

G Am
In the wells of silence

G
And the people bowed and prayed

Am
To the neon God they made.

F C
And the sign flashed out its warning,

F C
In the words that it was forming.

F
And the sign said, the words of the prophets

C
Are written on the subway walls

C C/B Am
And tenement halls.

C G Am
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.